Hindustan Magnesium Products Pvt Ltd team including MD – Mr Bala Anand & Director Sales – Mr Vikrant Rawa visited the SAAB Dynamics facility at Karlskoga & further the Gripen facility at Linkoping through a CII Defense Delegation from September 05th to September 07th 2011. The trip was aimed at understanding the potential magnesium castings requirement for SAAB in order to discuss further business opportunities with each other.

This visit was subsequent to a visit of SAAB Dynamics AB team to the Hindustan Magnesium Products Pvt Ltd factory in Hyderabad in July 2011. SAAB Dynamics AB, a well reputed name in defense & military equipment business has chosen India to be one of the key markets & is further looking at leveraging the Indian supply chain to strengthen its position in India. During their visit to the Hyderabad factory, the SAAB team found Hindustan Magnesium Products Pvt Ltd capable enough to be evaluated further for their magnesium castings requirement.

Hindustan Magnesium Products Pvt Ltd sees a huge opportunity of magnesium usage in the products that SAAB offers to India & is looking forward for a long standing business relationship with SAAB.

“The offset policy adoped by the Government of India offers us a big advantage since it encourages the defense equipment supplier to seriously evaluate the competencies of the Indian supply chain & further leverage on their strengths. SAAB being a major player in the defense industry, we are extremely excited with the interest they have shown in

us. We sincerely hope that this interest leads to a long standing business relationship in the future.” Says Mr Vikrant Rawa, Director-Sales. During their 3 day visit at the SAAB facility in Sweden, the HMPPL team was able to understand more about the standards of requirement from SAAB which would be a huge help to HMPPL for positioning their solutions to SAAB.